John 8:15-32

English Standard Version

^15 (A)You judge according to the flesh; ^(B)I judge no one. ¹⁶ Yet even if I do judge, ^(C)my judgment is true, for ^(D)it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father^[a] who sent me. ^17 (E)In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true. ¹⁸ I am the one who bears witness about myself, and ^(F)the Father who sent me bears witness about me.” ¹⁹ They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, ^(G)“You know neither me nor my Father. ^(H)If you knew me, you would know my Father also.” ²⁰ These words he spoke in ^(I)the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but ^(J)no one arrested him, because ^(K)his hour had not yet come.

²¹ So he said to them again, ^(L)“I am going away, and ^(M)you will seek me, and ^(N)you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” ²² So the Jews said, ^(O)“Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?” ²³ He said to them, ^(P)“You are from below; I am from above. ^(Q)You are of this world; ^(R)I am not of this world. ²⁴ I told you that you ^(S)would die in your sins, for ^(T)unless you believe that ^(U)I am he you will die in your sins.” ²⁵ So they said to him, ^(V)“Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning. ²⁶ I have much to say about you and much to judge, but ^(W)he who sent me is true, and I declare ^(X)to the world ^(Y)what I have heard from him.” ²⁷ They did not understand that ^(Z)he had been speaking to them about the Father. ²⁸ So Jesus said to them, “When you have ^(AA)lifted up the Son of Man, ^(AB)then you will know that ^(AC)I am he, and that ^(AD)I do nothing on my own authority, but ^(AE)speak just as the Father taught me. ²⁹ And ^(AF)he who sent me is with me. ^(AG)He has not left me alone, for ^(AH)I always do the things that are pleasing to him.” ³⁰ As he was saying these things, ^(AI)many believed in him.

The Truth Will Set You Free

³¹ So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, ^(AJ)“If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, ³² and you will ^(AK)know the truth, and the truth ^(AL)will set you free.”